Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...India the natives, naïvely do sometimes hold That savage elephants are sobered, (so at least I have been told) By a camel's bitter biting of their thin ears flapping fold. Once from Agra and from Oudh, all the people came to feast And to stand in glamorous gazing at grandees from out the East. Allahabad's ancient altars, Allah ruled, were not the least. . . . Oboe outbursts blatted blithely, beating drums too, bellowed near. Bedizened elephants and camels, caused a ringing round of cheer. This was time for fun and feasting, flout all thought of foolish...
Hear ye, hear ye, ye men of fat legs and thin legs, of long legs and short legs; harken, ye seekers after maximum comfort and the minimum of swaddling clothes. Give ear, ye who would be dictators of a fashion and dressed in the style of the hour. We announce the "short," as suitable for all Hanover occasions--full dress, informal afternoon wear, morning lounging apparel. Tomorrow...
Then follows the courtroom scene in which "Sandy" Tully (Jack Hartley), good friend of the deceased, is being tried for Stromberg's murder on very thin evidence indeed. Just as a witness is about to tell all he knows, a fusillade rings out from an upper box of the theatre, thus somehow terminating the legal proceedings. Last act is a flashback to Room No. 349, a scene in which Mr. Stromberg is portrayed as being wise, powerful, philanthropic, tender. His short temper, his desire to "quit the racket" and marry Babette are given as reasons for the quarrel...
...reason for sports prominence, but not the most ostentatious one. The situation today is colored by a commercial tinge, but one not wholly unjustifiable. College sports made the newspapers to a certain extent into the organizations that they are today. A generation ago sport pages of the press were thin and amateur and college sport news was hardly mentioned. But with the addition of this news, the news that the average person was making and was interested in, came more subscriptions, and more advertising, and with increased advertising came the growth of the paper...
...themselves. The panoramic shots were made without much trouble at Nahant, but the microscopically made views were all done in the laboratory. For this reason the work had to be carried on at night, since at no time in the day was the building quiet enough to permit the thin plates covered with the plant water to be free from ripples. Since the films were made between 1 and 3 o'clock in the morning, powerful lights were necessary to insure results on the movie film, and the lights, if not kept at a rigid brilliancy, killed the minute cell...